We are very pleased to announce the publication of Matthew Fittock's Fragile Gods: Pipeclay figurines and related objects in Roman Britain! 🏺 This book provides the first comprehensive catalogue and analysis of the nearly 1000 published and unpublished pipeclay objects now known from Britannia.

We don’t just write about archaeology! Here is our editor Tansy (pictured in red) who participated in a resistivity survey with the Suffolk Archaeological Field Group this past weekend! 🏺

This is so enormously sad! Unbelievable that the university management can't see the value in a collection like this.

👏👏 Congratulations to our colleague Marjolein D. Bosch on receiving an #ERC Starting Grant for her COPE project. She will explore how Ice Age hunters and gatherers responded to cold temperatures, resource scarcity 💦 🦌 🌱 , and environmental changes 30,000 years ago. More info: buff.ly/EGicG8z

🚨Archaeo-Science Job Klaxon🚨Please Share! We're hiring an interim Lab Manager here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Would be esp suited to someone with experience of running Archaeobotany, Human Osteology or Zooarchaeology lab. £53-64k in a great department. 🏺🧪🦴🌱🔬🦣 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Win a signed copy of the wonderful new book Stone Lands by Fiona Robertson. To enter please repost and like this post and follow us on here if you haven’t already. More… 1/

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow at 11am (UK/Lisbon time) to hear from @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and @tansybranscombe.bsky.social in the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9355232390...

Are you a graduate student thinking about career paths outside academia? Come listen to me and @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social talk about working in publishing at the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths seminar 📚

Happy to share our new publication which shows the potential of LIBS Mg/Ca mapping to characterise seasonal shellfish foraging practices from Tasmanian limpet shells. 🐚 Led by @fleurking.bsky.social #archsci #sclerochronology @niklashausmann.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's time for Martin Bell's Europa Lecture! Looking forward to learning all about landscape connectivity in Prehistory 🏺 @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social #Europa2025Reading

Very excited to see some molluscan representation at the @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social's Europa conference! Nick Barton is presenting on connectivity in the Mesolithic landscape, including shell beads from Mesolithic sites in South Wales 🐚🏺 #Europa2025Reading

Attending The Prehistoric Society Europa Conference 2025 today? Find our Editor Tansy to discuss publishing with us!🏺 @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

Our Editor Tansy is enjoying her time in Cardiff at the Iron Age Dialogues conference! Here is Mary Davis speaking about hoards this morning. 🏺

Ever wondered what medieval England may have sounded like?🎶 Dive into the soundscape of Early Medieval society with Lucy-Anne Taylor's new book. With in-depth archaeological analysis and captivating video re-creations of ancient instruments, it's a full sensory journey into history. 🏺 #medievalsky

I'm thrilled to announce that this is finally a reality! My thesis is now available as a book through @barpublishing.bsky.social. My thanks to the whole BAR team for their hard work and patience. Check it out here shorturl.at/fdB4o #archaeology #landscapearchaeology #prehistory #sheffielduni

We are thrilled to announce the publication of Military Households of Roman Auxiliary Commanders in Western Europe and North Africa by @clairemillington.bsky.social!🏺 Now available here: doi.org/10.30861/978...

The crossover we never knew we needed - today is World Anthropology Day and National Love Your Pet Day! 🏺🐕 Gwyn would like to celebrate by sharing her favourite BAR book, The Future is Indigenous!

Today is my 32nd birthday and I’ll be donating £32 to a couple of Palestinian fundraisers - like Mustafa’s! Mustafa has lost so much and needs our help to support his family in Gaza . Please consider donating at the link below and share his fundraiser widely! tiny.cc/helpmustafa

We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here! Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺 #ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky

Isles of Scilly/St Ives

🔊Calling all School of Archaeology staff, students, projects and alumni! So far I've found 27 of our School community on here, let us know if there are more! go.bsky.app/JX5CP1k

Vacancy for Project Curator: Registration of Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Collections British Museum bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com/templates/CI...

Come publish with us! 🏺🌍

If you've lost your home in a wildfire and it held cremains that you weren't able to take with you- contact Alta Heritage Foundation. They're archaeologists who have developed methods of recovering cremains from ashes of homes. Non-profit, at no cost. #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #AltadenaFire

We are thrilled to announce the publication of our newest Open Access title The Future is Indigenous: Stories from the new Native North America Hall at the Field Museum! 🔓📚🏺 Read it here: doi.org/10.30861/978... #ancientbluesky #archaeology

For Christmas, I’ll be reposting a bunch of fundraising campaigns for Palestinians all day - if you’re able to, please do donate! But at the very least, please share them!

Almost left it too late for a Christmas #HillfortsWednesday! I give you Castell Nadolig (Christmas Castle), an #IronAge Hillfort in Ceredigion and home of the Penbryn Spoons 🎄🏰🏺 rcahmw.gov.uk/castell-nado... 📸: Crown copyright RCAHMW

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁🐾

Waiting in Lands End airport in the hopes that some flights may eventually leave today. Keep your fingers crossed and pray to Boreas for me! 🎄🤞🏻

Lights over Hadrians Wall ✨🌌🏛️🏺 #art #illustration #HadriansWall

If anyone lost a monkey at the @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social this week, fear not, he's still here and having a lovely time. He is ready to go home though, so if he was with you, get in touch with us and we'll get him home for Christmas!

Some maritime archaeology perhaps? doi.org/10.30861/978... Open Access as well!

Absolute props to Owen Humphreys for this phenomenal caption in his Roman tools volume with BAR...

Some great auk representation at the Association for Environmental Archaeology conference today! #archaeology 🏺

I'm not going to tell you which one you vote for, but the competition is hot in our work gingerbread house contest this year... 🎄

✨ We are hiring! Assistant Professor European/North European Iron Age & Medieval/Renaissance archaeology (500 BC - 1500 AD). Particularly digital methods. Permanent position from Sept 2025 Research & teaching focus Located in beautiful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Tenure track to Associate Prof after 6 years

✨We are thrilled to announce that our book In Search of Norfolk’s First Stone Churches by Peter Wade-Martins has been nominated for a CA award! ✨🏺 Please vote for us here: archaeology.co.uk/vote

One the prettiest trees in Oxford - I make a pilgrimage for some new photos every year! 🎄

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

The God of Arepo / a #comic about a farmer who befriends a nothing god (1/13) #art

A #MosaicMonday from Chedworth Roman villa 🏺 @nattrustarch.bsky.social #archaeology

I watched Gladiator for the first time last night (I know, very embarrassing for an archaeologist!). Now the big question - should I go and see Gladiator II, or will it spoil the still-fresh enjoyment of the first? 🏺⚔️

The Society has successfully secured a grant of £40,000 for the groundbreaking archaeological project titled "Silence of the Sentinels: The Violent End of Roman Britain's Coastal Defences c. 400 AD" in North Yorkshire. Read more: www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/news/kas-sec... #archaeology 🏺 #heritage

Our Editor @tansybranscombe.bsky.social with BAR author @clairemillington.bsky.social at the Reconnecting Roman Britain conference! 🏺

Prehistorians starter pack: go.bsky.app/R1ejt58

go.bsky.app/NBGDhH I've started a - very incomplete so far! - Roman Archaeology starter pack as I couldn't find one! Let me know who I need to add as I've not found lots of people here yet who I'm sure will have joined the Xodus :-)

A lovely (if very wet) archaeological tour around Chester this afternoon, courtesy of Peter Carrington @chesterarchsoc.bsky.social 🏺

Laid to rest with a decorated bronze mirror and a wine-strainer, this Late Iron Age woman of the Durotriges was found at Portesham Dorset in 1994 📷 @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social @wessexmuseums.bsky.social reconstruction © Craig Williams For more see: wessexmuseums.org.uk/collections-... #FindsFriday

#findsfriday 🏺 I'm on the way to Chester for Reconnecting Roman Britain, so a find held in the Grosvenor seems appropriate! Carnelian intaglio in a later Roman or Early Medieval silver pendant setting. The image shows a fallen gladiator fending off a big cat. 📷: @findsorguk.bsky.social CC BY-NC-SA

I'm very much looking forward to catching up with all the #romanbritain folks at the Reconnecting Roman Britain conference in Chester this weekend. I have my promo leaflets all ready for @clairemillington.bsky.social's new book! Come find me or Claire for a special 25% off pre-order 🏺